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Chapter 1 Lesson 1
What is life?
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cell | The basic unit of structure an function in living things. |
| Organism | A living thing. |
| Unicellular | Single celled organisms . |
| Multicellular | Many celled organisms. |
| Metavolism | The combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials. |
| Stimulus | A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react . |
| Response | An action or a change in behavior. |
| Development | Is the process that occurs during an organisms life. |
| Asexual Reproduction | involves only one parent and produces offspring that are identical to the parent. |
| Sexual Repredaction | Two parents combine their genetic material to produce a new oragnisim |
| Spontaneous Generation | The mistaken idea that living things come from nonliving sources |
| Controlled experiment | An experiment where each variable is controlled at a time |
| Autotroph | A organism that produces food from sunlight or chemicals |
| Hetrootroph | A organism that cant produce its own food so eats other living things |
| Homeostasis | An organism's internal environment kept stable in spite of changes is |